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Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:55:10 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Hedi Berriche <hedi.berriche@hpe.com>
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] efi/x86: turn EFI runtime semaphore into a global
 lock
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Hedi Berriche wrote:

> Make efi_runtime_lock semaphore global so that it can be used by EFI
> runtime callers that may be defined outside efi/runtime-wrappers.c.

The changelog should mention why the lock is renamed. I have no strong
opinion, but to apply that I need an Ack from Ard.

Thanks,

	tglx